IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/bla/jorssa/v178y2015i3p741-755.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

Home bias in officiating: evidence from international cricket

Author

Listed:
  • Abhinav Sacheti
  • Ian Gregory-Smith
  • David Paton

Abstract

type="main" xml:id="rssa12086-abs-0001"> We use data on leg before wicket decisions from 1000 test cricket matches to quantify the systematic bias by officials (umpires) to favour home teams. We exploit recent changes in the regulation of test cricket as a series of natural experiments to help to identify whether social pressure from crowds has a causal effect on home bias. Using negative binomial regressions, we find that home umpires favour home teams and that this effect is more pronounced in the later stages of matches.

Suggested Citation

  • Abhinav Sacheti & Ian Gregory-Smith & David Paton, 2015. "Home bias in officiating: evidence from international cricket," Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series A, Royal Statistical Society, vol. 178(3), pages 741-755, June.
    • Handle: RePEc:bla:jorssa:v:178:y:2015:i:3:p:741-755
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1111/rssa.2015.178.issue-3
    Download Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers.

    As the access to this document is restricted, you may want to search for a different version of it.

    Citations

    Citations are extracted by the CitEc Project, subscribe to its RSS feed for this item.
    as


    Cited by:

    1. J. James Reade & Dominik Schreyer & Carl Singleton, 2020. "Eliminating supportive crowds reduces referee bias," Economics Discussion Papers em-dp2020-25, Department of Economics, Reading University.
    2. Thomas Bassetti & Stefano Bonini & Fausto Pacicco & Filippo Pavesi, 2019. "Play it again! A Natural Experiment on Reversibility Bias," "Marco Fanno" Working Papers 0238, Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche "Marco Fanno".
    3. J. James Reade & Dominik Schreyer & Carl Singleton, 2020. "Echoes: what happens when football is played behind closed doors?," Economics Discussion Papers em-dp2020-14, Department of Economics, Reading University.
    4. Sarah Jewell & J. James Reade & Carl Singleton, 2020. "It's Just Not Cricket: The Uncontested Toss and the Gentleman's Game," Economics Discussion Papers em-dp2020-10, Department of Economics, Reading University.

    More about this item

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:bla:jorssa:v:178:y:2015:i:3:p:741-755. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: (Wiley Content Delivery). General contact details of provider: http://edirc.repec.org/data/rssssea.html .

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service hosted by the Research Division of the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis . RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.